Mark Mulder served as vice principal in John Calvin Christian school in the Perth area of Western Australia. In this fascinating interview, we learn how Mark and his wife Liz exchanged their comfortable suburban life for a life in a foreign mission field. They sold all they had to follow the Lord's calling. Mark was urged by several friends to apply for the position of Principal of The Reformed Churches' Bible College in Port Moresby PNG. At first he resisted but on Liz's urging took o...

If you know your church has great potential to impact its community and you believe you need a mission and vision statement written down before you get started, then this episode is for you. Winston and Bill pick the brain of marketing agency owner Chris vanPopta to explore the question: Does a church need a mission or vision statement to be on mission for Christ? Somewhere during the interview, Bill and Winston have the tables turned on them and Chris asks them some great questions too! The...

Winston and Bill speak with Ben Westerveld to discuss the role of the seminary in promoting a missional mindset in the training of future pastors. Ben Westerveld is the new professor and principal of Farel, an institute for theological training to serve the ERQ (Église Réformée du Québec). How and should seminary training be adapting to our post-modern, post-christian, post-epidemic setting? www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast

Our guests today are accomplished musicians. Tim is a member of a jazz band, and Kent is a principal participant of an annual “Reformed Strings Camp”. Both have a love for Reformed worship and liturgy and lead the singing in their local church. Bill and Winston explore the intersection between music and the missional call of the church. What kind of music is appropriate for worship? www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast

Pastor Randall Visscher and two leaders of the relatively new Refuge Church, in Langley BC are the guests on Tyrannus Hall. Mike Vandergugten and Jerome Lenkeek joined those who had a vision for a missional church. Launched in July 2020, in the middle of Covid restrictions and lockdowns, the Lord has blessed this new congregation with fields ripe for harvest. Listen to these men relate how the Lord opened a wide door for effective work among Indian and Pakistani immigrants in their loca...

In this episode we meet John Siebenga, a retired Christian school teacher and principal, a licensed Christian counsellor, and journeyman carpenter. He and his wife are members of Houston Canadian Reformed Church in British Columbia. They were wondering where they might be engaged in God’s kingdom work in their retirement years. They considered volunteering in overseas mission work, but then their attention was drawn to the work that the neighbouring Church in Smithers was doing in Prince Geor...

Our guest today is Pastor Greg Davidson. Greg very recently became co-pastor at Blessings Christian Church working with Tyrannus Hall co-host Bill de Jong. Greg was the pastor at Central Presbyterian, a Presbyterian Church in Canada congregation in downtown Hamilton. While he still has many friends in the wider church, Greg shares some of his concerns about “the protestant movement” in general and some encouragement for the “confessionally Reformed movement” of which he is now a member....

Is the Great Commission correctly used as foundational to the theology of missions? Our guest, Kristen Johnson is Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs at Western Theological Seminary in Holland, Michigan, where she holds the G.W. and Edna Haworth chair for Education, Ministry, and Leadership. Kristen has done extensive research on Matthew 28:16-20. This week we discover answers to questions we never dreamt of asking! When did the church begin to use this text to describe and underwri...

Pastor John van Popta, retired pastor of Fellowship Church in Burlington is our guest (John is the producer/director of Tyrannus Hall and does much of the background research and organization for our podcasts). Our hosts, Bill and Winston, interview John about how best to welcome guests on “Communion Sundays.” Who should participate? Who should be withheld? John’s research into the Biblical data has convinced him to examine carefully the manner whereby we withhold communion from visitors. Do...

Request for Help: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyrannus-hall-podcast-annual-fundraising We have opened a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising $3500 to cover ongoing software expenses and our planned hardware upgrades. If you find Tyrannus Hall to be a benefit to you and your church community, we would ask you to prayerfully consider helping us with a donation of $50, or $20, or even $10. 10 Principles for Local Mission Pastor Winston Bosch, the Host of Tyrannus Hall was our guest for ou...

Request for Help: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyrannus-hall-podcast-annual-fundraising We have opened a GoFundMe campaign with the goal of raising $3500 to cover ongoing software expenses and our planned hardware upgrades. If you find Tyrannus Hall to be a benefit to you and your church community, we would ask you to prayerfully consider helping us with a donation of $50, or $20, or even $10. 10 Principles for Local Mission Pastor Winston Bosch, the Host of Tyrannus Hall is our special guest...

Support Tyrannus Hall Podcast here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyrannus-hall-podcast-annual-fundraising Welcome to Season 2 of Tyrannus Hall Podcast. We’re starting the season by asking the question: “Is being a conservative church harming the spread of the gospel in your city? Can a biblically conservative church really reach the broader community with the good news of Jesus Christ? The hosts of this podcast are pastors of confessional churches. They pastor churches that stand f...

Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/tyrannus-hall-podcast-annual-fundraising Christ commissioned his Church to do great things in his name! Yet, too often we’ve caught ourselves thinking of “church” as a place, rather than as a congregation of Christians on a mission. Tyrannus Hall Podcast exists to take the mystery out of how to live the great commission with your local church. We see Christ’s Great Commission becoming every church’s mission and every Christian’s passion! ...

Join Winston in a fascinating discussion with Richard Bultje and his wife, Yukyung. Richard is a pastor in the URCNA, and has been called by the local URCs to plant a church in Niagara Falls. Richard and Yukyung are experienced in reaching the lost after working for many years in downtown Hamilton at Streetlight, a Canadian Reformed mission. Richard brings his experience as an evangelist to this new church planting venture. www.tyrannushallpodcast.ca www.facebook.com/tyrannushallpodcast

Mariia Alekseevskaia emigrated to Canada from Russia. While still in her homeland, she discovered Dutch Reformed Theology and how its adherents have a passion for Christian Schools. Mariia studied sociology at the University of Ottawa and wrote her PdD thesis on Canadian Reformed schools and education (link below). Though her study of Canadian Reformed School culture in Ontario did not investigate church planting or missional churches, our hosts engage Mariia in a fascinating discussion...

Pastor Paul Murphy discusses how he started a lunch-time Bible study on Wall Street, how his congregation began providing spiritual care at a downtown hospital, how they started an ESL class for parents of students at a public school using the Gospel of Mark as the textbook. Pastor Paul explains how Reformed theology is an asset for evangelism. The doctrines of forgiveness, of the sovereignty of God, of election, and of covenant are powerful anchors for church planting. Messiah’s Refo...

Stephen Bray is a church planter in St. John’s Newfoundland, one of the least “churched” cities in Canada (Only 1% of the city’s population attends worship services on Sundays.) Stephen is associated with Mile One Mission. M1M is a group of men and women who hold a deep conviction to see Gospel-centred churches raised up and supported amongst the peoples of Newfoundland and Labrador In Newfoundland. There, Christians traditionally identify as Roman Catholic, Anglican, United, Salv...

Tim DeVos runs a recovery house for men who have serious life challenges: drugs, alcohol, depression and other serious problems. Tim discusses the struggles to get volunteers and financial partners to join him in launching and opening a Christian “discipleship house.” Pindari House is more than a rehab house; it's a home for troubled men, founded on the Scripture. (Pindari Recovery House is in a suburb of Perth, Western Australia). Tim is exploring how to develop a unique real-li...

Can a smaller church provide a community that is closely engaged in prayer and fellowship? A new Canadian Reformed Church in Abbotsford, BC is trying to create a vibrant congregation. After several years of planning, a steering committee received support from the Abbotsford church council. The Abbotsford church had over 550 members when Pathway Church was launched, but the launch date coincided with the COVID-19 lockdown. Bill and Winston interview two of the leaders of Pathway Church ...

Among Reformed and other Christian business leaders there is a growing hunger for "something more." The is a new realization that the Christian message is not just about information, but that the gospel message leads to transformation: the transformation of the whole person. Darren Bosch introduces DeliberateU, which provides Christian, gospel-centered mentoring to Christian leaders in business and the in the Church. DeliberateU accents the transformational power of the gospel. It provides b...